Confirmed Trade: [BUF/VGK] Jack Eichel, c.'23 3rd for Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, c.'22 1st (Top10 protected), c.'23 2nd
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All these fans can't admit the Sabres got a fantastic haul for Eichel. Sad.
Dont know we traded Nylander for Joki whos been fine. Ask CHI or Rockford wherever he is. Mitts is also progressing after being mishandled by previous management. Bryson, Asplund, Hagel(good pick couldnt sign), Johnson, Peterka, Quinn, Portillo, Weissbach, all on track to become NHL players if they arent already. But yea keep trying to dunk on them.
Their biggest miss has been a 2017 2nd round pick and they are getting NHL minutes from a good number of later round picks.
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They also bought low.... a healthy Eichel would have gone for God knows how much.
(For the record, even if he had been healthy the last 10 months I think he still would have asked to be traded. The situation was already pretty bad. & he's petulant)
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Maybe they were hoping he would progress quickly into the #1C role but had an option to acquire an established one, albeit one that won't be playing anytime soon. Vegas is also in win-now mode and while it would be great for them to see one of their prospects develop into a top 6 forward, they also don't have the luxury of time.
Can you not enjoy a thread without making it about the leafs and your perceived leaf hate? Come on man be better
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Clearly I need to post more about this. The Sabres have Cozens in the lineup learning every day, Mittelstadt is finally making some progress forward (well as of last year anyway), now they have Krebs as a C prospect, they just got Tuch, Jack Quinn is their other top prospect at wing, no need to hurry UPL in goal, Power will eventually come over from UM.
At this point Buffalo can do whatever the hell it wants BPA-wise at the draft and just sit there and wait for the fruits to grow. If I'm a Sabre fan, my suffering would be all but officially over. I can handle losing just fine. Just not losing without a plan. In a Sabres' fan position I could actually relax and watch a young team with some sense of direction of what the hell it's doing and be happy at every success and say "live and learn boys" at every failure.
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Well, here's a VGK fan who thinks the Sabres did well in the trade -- I'm not sure that Eichel was worth Tuch alone -- but on both sides there are unknowns, i.e., whether either Eichel or Tuch can ever come back near 100% of what they were before. I think that is a lot more likely with Tuch, but then again the VGK have proven to be riverboat gamblers when it comes to wheeling and dealing (but recalling that Lady Luck can go from a smile to a frown in a nanosecond).
Sometimes I start to get the feeling that the VGK are writing 21-22 off and are starting to posture early for 22-23.
Also, I don't expect the VGK PP to get any better so long as that idiot Steve Spotts is still around. You can't fix stupid, even with extreme talent.
After watching several of their games this season, they have two or three underrated players. They won't be brilliant soon but the team is at least entertaining to watch.
Their prospect pool means they *should* have a decent, young side in 2 years.
Levi and UPL as goalie prospects
Dahlin, Power, Johnson, Jokiharju all 22 or under as Ds
Cozens, Krebs, Quinn, Peterka, Mittlestadt, Ruotsalainen as forwards.
3 1sts this year which they will add to those.
That is a lot more exciting than the Sabres have had to endure over the last 5-10 years.
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To be fair, you were the most vocal Sabres fan saying they should keep him until they can get full value.
They only need to worry about next year. IF Eichel plays, it likely won't be before Playoffs, if Vegas makes it. He still needs his surgery, and then recovery time.
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I would come back with an insult but I figure you suffer enough living in Rochester.
This is what a rebuild looks like, and if I were a Sabres fan I'd probably be pretty happy with the efforts being made.
I thought his timeline to return was 3ish months post surgery? Say for mid March even, 4 months from now. Still a decent chunk of season left. Guess we will see...
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They got a bag of magic beans for ROR and then saw him win the Selke, Cup and Smythe less than a year later
& by all accounts, he had no problem sticking around in Buffalo.
Trade two #1 centers and get ..... this .......... in return
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The cognitive dissonance with a certain poster in this thread and watching them cope with it the only way people with this affliction know how to - digging in deeper to their absolutely unhinged homerism despite contradicting themselves into a pretzel - is rather amusing.
That said given the circumstances, the “Buffalo got trash back” posts are equally bad. We will see how it plays out. Worth the risk for Vegas? Absolutely. But a few years back the Sens got laughed at for the EK return and it turned out pretty well. So how it works for Buffalo is TBD.
That said given the circumstances, the “Buffalo got trash back” posts are equally bad. We will see how it plays out. Worth the risk for Vegas? Absolutely. But a few years back the Sens got laughed at for the EK return and it turned out pretty well. So how it works for Buffalo is TBD.
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yet you thought Krebs wasn't even that great of a prospect to begin with. but now that he is you're fawning over the return. i've seen some dedicated homers on this forum but you're on a whole different level.
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I still think this is a fairly poor return for a healthy Eichel, but I think this says more about how bad most GM's are than anything about the Sabres or Vegas. Eichel, of course isn't healthy, but he will very likely come back to full health and be a top C in the league and Vegas gave up a low price to get that. Most people have been equating a surgery with unkown risk to surgery with high risk. This is NOT a risky surgery. The problem is that the risk is not known. Those are very different things.
As a Sabres fan (and proud resident of Western NY), this is a better return than they got for ROR and acceptable given the situation. Eichel is a top player in his prime and the Sabres (and fans) were 1) absolutely right to ask for other teams top prospects; and 2) not actually expecting that to be the return, again, considering the circumstances.
If nothing else, I'm happy to move on and not read any more of this god forsaken thread and its evil kin.
As a Sabres fan (and proud resident of Western NY), this is a better return than they got for ROR and acceptable given the situation. Eichel is a top player in his prime and the Sabres (and fans) were 1) absolutely right to ask for other teams top prospects; and 2) not actually expecting that to be the return, again, considering the circumstances.
If nothing else, I'm happy to move on and not read any more of this god forsaken thread and its evil kin.
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